UK Mobile Operator O2 allows its customers to send Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS) photos to email recipients by way of a web interface
Opcos force you to these horrid web interfaces because they want to avoid becoming mere bitpipes and want to keep control over what you can / cannot send by email over your connection. Too bad for your MMS to blog dreams, which would be so easily realizable with REAL MMS-to-Email.
It exposes your whereabouts. They don't say on what they base this claim.
It's a frickin' cell phone. Of course it exposes your whereabouts. Or did you think the network broadcasts every paging to the entire network when someone is calling you ?
I'll use the Larry Flynt defense here: by protecting pirates' (and for all it matters terrorists' and pedophiles') right to use crypto, you de facto protect yours.
It's funny because the Slut plane is actually a Sabena plane. In the 1990s Sabena slept with Air France, with KLM, with BA and finally got a deadly disease from Swissair (who sunk Sabena to delay their own downfall)
for their job ? Not taking into account no one can spend 10hrs a day just to drive to/from their workplace, if you can afford the gas, you can afford the cost of relocating, even with the outrageous housing prices in Cali.
*Outside of Benelux, most countries CANNOT be crossed by road in an hour or two. *Paris to Amsterdam is 504km. It's at best a 5h drive. 10h back and forth. How many people do that in the US?
1) now when I try to go to my favourite paragliding site, all sites with "Para" in the get proposed, including those that don't have para in the hostname 2) the bar has decided once and for all that I have 9 unread mails in my gmail inbox 3) the "handle all files like this one from now on" bug/design flaw is still there, since 0.xx
If it has the same market as crude oil, it will sell at crude oil price. With them being the sole producers, they will effectively become a de facto OPEC member, and will remain so until patents have expired, by which time the price of crude oil will possibly be far beyond $1000/bbl
Who the fuck launches a browser because it's the default browser ?
What's the ratio of explicit brower icon/menu launch vs. web link launch ? It must be one of the highest on the market compared to other applications. As much as it doesn't make sense to "open adobe acrobat then open the file open dialog to open a pdf file" or "open OOO/MSWord then open the file open dialog to open a doc file" (most people will just click directly on the document's icon), it seems to me most web browsers, like mail clients are launched explicitly by...launching them.
The metaphor is just different: in case of a doc or pdf or mp3 file, you generally already "got" the file. The entry point for a web page is in most cases a link on...another web page. Hence you've already got to be in the browser to pass through that entry point.
You'll object that people now use offline RSS readers to browse headlines, and that will use the default browser setting to launch the default browser. That's true, but people who install offline readers are more educated and more likely to use firefox. They also must be a minority compared to online RSS readers.
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Nobody uses .Net; nobody will ever use Silverlight. Their only reason for existence is that Java and Flash were not invited at Microsoft.
It is not banned in trains where it is cheap. Why should it be banned in planes where it is prohibitively expensive ?
They should just change the number from "999" to "0118 999 881 999 119 725 3". That's a number you'll only lookup in case you reaaaally need help
Opcos force you to these horrid web interfaces because they want to avoid becoming mere bitpipes and want to keep control over what you can / cannot send by email over your connection. Too bad for your MMS to blog dreams, which would be so easily realizable with REAL MMS-to-Email.
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Are you from the french military ?
It's a frickin' cell phone. Of course it exposes your whereabouts. Or did you think the network broadcasts every paging to the entire network when someone is calling you ?
I'll use the Larry Flynt defense here: by protecting pirates' (and for all it matters terrorists' and pedophiles') right to use crypto, you de facto protect yours.
Batteries are outdated. You're thinking EEStor.
My grandmother has been living (well kinda) under a rock for 20 years, you insensitive clod
"lobbiest" ? is that "lobbier" pushed to the maximum ?
Is "of" a special form of the verb "to have" ? Is "took" the past participle of the verb "to take" ?
It's funny because the Slut plane is actually a Sabena plane. In the 1990s Sabena slept with Air France, with KLM, with BA and finally got a deadly disease from Swissair (who sunk Sabena to delay their own downfall)
for their job ? Not taking into account no one can spend 10hrs a day just to drive to/from their workplace, if you can afford the gas, you can afford the cost of relocating, even with the outrageous housing prices in Cali.
Your geography knowledge sucks.
*Outside of Benelux, most countries CANNOT be crossed by road in an hour or two.
*Paris to Amsterdam is 504km. It's at best a 5h drive. 10h back and forth. How many people do that in the US?
1) now when I try to go to my favourite paragliding site, all sites with "Para" in the get proposed, including those that don't have para in the hostname
2) the bar has decided once and for all that I have 9 unread mails in my gmail inbox
3) the "handle all files like this one from now on" bug/design flaw is still there, since 0.xx
Let them do it.
I'd rather cope with isolationist chinese oil moguls than with fascist, expansionist oil sheikhs
If it has the same market as crude oil, it will sell at crude oil price. With them being the sole producers, they will effectively become a de facto OPEC member, and will remain so until patents have expired, by which time the price of crude oil will possibly be far beyond $1000/bbl
ok, but how often should I change the snake oil ?
Who the fuck launches a browser because it's the default browser ?
What's the ratio of explicit brower icon/menu launch vs. web link launch ? It must be one of the highest on the market compared to other applications. As much as it doesn't make sense to "open adobe acrobat then open the file open dialog to open a pdf file" or "open OOO/MSWord then open the file open dialog to open a doc file" (most people will just click directly on the document's icon), it seems to me most web browsers, like mail clients are launched explicitly by...launching them.
The metaphor is just different: in case of a doc or pdf or mp3 file, you generally already "got" the file. The entry point for a web page is in most cases a link on...another web page. Hence you've already got to be in the browser to pass through that entry point.
You'll object that people now use offline RSS readers to browse headlines, and that will use the default browser setting to launch the default browser. That's true, but people who install offline readers are more educated and more likely to use firefox. They also must be a minority compared to online RSS readers.
No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism.
You've forgotten 6, 95, 2000, 2003.
Word 5 was a DOS versions, competing with Word for Windows 2. Both aligned to form Word 6 (Dos or Windows)
Wow, Internet Explorer developers, you better not go to Finland...
It's FILM at 11. The news anchor obviously already has the news, why would he make you wait till 11 ? So that the other channels can outrun him ?